Urs Suter

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Urs Suter
Personal information
Date of birth (1959-03-04) 4 March 1959 (age 64)
Place of birth Zürich, Switzerland
Height 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Youth career
1970–1976 FC Langnau am Albis
1976–1978 Grasshopper Club Zürich
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1978–1980 Grasshopper Club Zürich
1980–1982 FC Blue Stars Zürich
1982–1983 FC Wettingen 29 (0)
1983–1988 FC Basel 138 (0)
1988–1992 FC Zürich 43 (0)
1992–1933 FC Wettingen 22 (0)
1993–1998 FC Tuggen
1998– FC Wollishofen
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 23 November 2009
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 23 November 2009

Urs Suter (born 4 March 1959) is a Swiss former footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

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Football career

Suter started his football with the youth teams of the local football club FC Langnau am Albis before moving on to Grasshopper Club Zürich. He played in their youth team and later in their reserve side. During the 1980–81 and 1981–82 seasons he played for FC Blue Stars Zürich in the Swiss 1. Liga. [1]

Urs Suter signed his first professional contract with promoted FC Wettingen in 1981. [2] During his first season he was the reserve goalkeeper and did not come to any playing time, but the team won promotion. In the 1982–83 season Suter became first keeper and played 29 games.

Suter joined FC Basel in their 1983–84 season under head-coach Ernst-August Künnecke. After playing in seven test games Suter played his domestic league debut for the club in the away game on 10 August 1983 as Basel were defeated 2–4 by Bellinzona. [3] With Basel he won the Uhrencup in 1983 and 1986. Suter played in Basel for five seasons, until the team was relegated after a very disappointing 1987–88 season. His team mates included defenders Massimo Ceccaroni and Peter Bernauer and Swiss national team players such as Adrian Knup, Dominique Herr and Peter Nadig. Despite this personally strongly occupied team Basel were relegated to the Nationalliga B after the 1987–88 Nationalliga A season. [4] During this time Suter played a total of 219 games for Basel. 138 of these games were in the Nationalliga A, 14 in the Swiss Cup and 67 were friendly games. [5]

At that point he transferred to FC Zürich and played there for four years. [6] During the season 1989–90 Suter won promotion with Zürich to the Nationalliga A.

In the 1992–93 season, Suter again played for FC Wettingen, but at the end of the season the club was dissolved due to financial reasons. So Suter moved, as semi-professional, to FC Tuggen in the 1. Liga. The team won the Group championship and were promoted to the Challenge League (then named Nationalliga B). However, a year later the team was placed last in the division and were relegated. Again a year later they were 1. Liga Group winners, but failed in the play-off promotion game with 0:2 against FC Thun. Suter played in Tuggen five years and retired in 1998, concluding his football career with FC Wollishofen in the lower divisions.

Honours

Basel

Zürich

Tuggen

Personal Information

Urs Suter is married to Jacqueline. They have two daughters Kerstin und Senja. Today Suter lives in Zürich and works as a sales representative for an electric lighting company. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 Müller, Lukas (2009). "Rotblau: Urs Suter - der flinke Mann zwischen den Pfosten". Rotblau. FC Basel Marketing AG. ISSN   1660-0878.
  2. ↑ weltfussball.com (1999). "Profile at WorldFootball". weltfussball.com. Retrieved 16 November 2010.
  3. ↑ Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. "AC Bellinzona - FC Basel 4:2 (3:0)". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. Retrieved 16 November 2019.
  4. ↑ Müller, Lukas (2010). "Rotblau: Peter Bernauer - Zuverlässig und kopfballstark im Abwehrzentrum". Rotblau (in German). FC Basel Marketing AG. ISSN   1660-0878.
  5. ↑ Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. "Urs Suter - FCB-Statistik". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. Retrieved 16 November 2019.
  6. ↑ FC Zürich (1999). "Urs Suter (*04.03.1959)". igang3.ch. Retrieved 16 November 2010.

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